Kennen with Diana
How to Synergize Kennen and Diana
based on 1,142 Kennen with Diana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Diana Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Diana
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Diana
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Advice to Understand How Diana Will Play
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Kennen Diana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Diana as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Diana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Diana, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Diana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Diana helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Diana, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Diana does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Diana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Diana.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Diana on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Diana does a decent job of covering Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Diana
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Diana?
There is no one best ally for Kennen that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Diana is a below average teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 46.4%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Kennen and Diana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Diana has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be careful when lining up Diana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kennen and Diana together, you will not be providing your other allies enough support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Diana ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Kennen and Diana synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Diana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Kennen players should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kennen and Diana pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Diana with Kennen are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.